We drop packet unconditionally when we fail to mirror it. This is not intended
in some cases. Consdier for kvm guest, we may mirror the traffic of the bridge
to a tap device used by a VM. When kernel fails to mirror the packet in
conditions such as when qemu crashes or stop polling the tap, it's ha
On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 17:37 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> We drop packet unconditionally when we fail to mirror it. This is not intended
> in some cases.
Hi Jason,
Did you actually notice the behavior you described or were you going by
the XXX comment I had in the code?
cheers,
jamal
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On 08/15/2012 08:35 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 17:37 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
We drop packet unconditionally when we fail to mirror it. This is not intended
in some cases.
Hi Jason,
Did you actually notice the behavior you described or were you going by
the XXX comment I
On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 21:42 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>
> I met it actually through the following steps:
>
> - start a kvm guest with tap and make it to be an interface of the bridge
> - mirror the ingress traffic of the bridge to the tap
> - terminate the qemu process, the tap device is then rem
On 08/15/2012 11:10 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 21:42 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
I met it actually through the following steps:
- start a kvm guest with tap and make it to be an interface of the bridge
- mirror the ingress traffic of the bridge to the tap
- terminate the qe
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